NUTRI-QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. It makes up most of your blood and help carry oxygen and food to the cells in your body. It
helps your body get rid of wastes through urine and sweat.
Answer: Water
2. What food nutrient is our body’s main source of energy?
Answer: Carbohydrates
3. They are very important for building strong bones.
Answer: Calcium
4. It is a degenerative brain disorder that causes a gradual and irreversible decline in memory
and eventually, the ability to care for oneself.
Answer: Alzheimer’s disease
5. It is a dietary-deficiency disease resulting from inadequate intake of niacin.
Answer: Pellagra
6. An irregularity in the rhythm of the heartbeat is referred to as what?
Answer: Arrhythmia
7. It is a water-soluble vitamin found in fruits and leafy vegetables and is also called as ascorbic
acid.
Answer: Vitamin C
8. A prolonged deficiency of Vitamin C in the diet causes what disease?
Answer: Scurvy
10. What is the protein food found in milk?
Answer: Casein
11. What is the cheapest source of Vitamin D?
Answer: Sunlight/Morning Sunshine
13. The package of simple ready-to-cook foods designed as a supplement to the usual diet of
the child is called what?
Answer: Nutri-Pak
14. What severe form of child malnutrition is caused by inadequate intake of protein?
Answer: Kwashiorkor
15. It refers to the food that a person usually consumes.
Answer: Diet
16. This vitamin is extracted from liver which is essential for red blood cell formation.
Answer: Vitamin B12/Cyanocobalamin

19. Any substance that nourishes a person to enable him to live and grow.
Answer: Food
20. It is a condition characterized by sleepiness, indifference, and lack of energy.
Answer: Lethargy
22. _____________ is caused by lack of calories or inadequate amount of food.
Answer: Marasmus
23. It is a type of cancer of the blood characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white
blood cells called “blasts“.
Answer: Leukemia or Leukaemia
24. The slowness of heart rate is referred to as what?
Answer: Bradycardia
25. The first secretion from the mother’s breast is rich in antibodies and minerals. This is
produced after giving birth and before the production of true milk. It provides newborns with
immunity to infections.
Answer: Colostrum
26. These are the “building blocks” of protein which is an integral part of all body tissues
especially muscle.
Answer: Amino Acids
27. It is the enlargement of the thyroid gland appearing as a swelling of the front of the neck.
Answer: Goiter
28. It helps prevent goiter.
Answer: Iodine
29. This refers to the ease with which nutrients, particularly minerals, can be absorbed from the
digestive tract and utilized by the body.
Answer: Bio-availability/Bioavailability
31. These are the building blocks of fats and oils.
Answer: Fatty Acids
32. It refers to the study of measurement of the physical characteristics of the body such as
height and weight.
Answer: Anthropometry
33. It is the pressure of the blood on the walls of the arteries.
Answer: Blood Pressure
34. _________ is the rate of energy used for metabolism when the body is at complete rest.
Answer: Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
35. It is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating, sometimes followed by vomiting or
purging.
Answer: Bulimia
36. What is the natural stimulant found in coffee, tea, and chocolate?
Answer: Caffeine
37. It is the unit of heat and the measurement of energy.
Answer: Calorie
38. ___________ is a monosaccharide, sometimes known as blood sugar.
Answer: Glucose
39. It is the main carbohydrate in milk.
Answer: Lactose
40. These refers to the substances obtained from food and used in the body to provide energy
and structural materials and to regulate growth, maintenance and repair of the body’s tissue.
Answer: Nutrients
41. __________ is a chronic disease characterized by excessively high body fat in relation to
lean body tissue.
Answer: Obesity
42. It is an excess of body weight that includes fat, bone, and muscle.
Answer: Overweight
43. What is the general term for the people who exclude meat, poultry, fish, or other animal-
derived foods from their diets?
Answer: Vegetarians
44. These are organic, essential nutrients required only in small amounts.
Answer: Vitamins
45. ________ is a guideline for the amount of energy and selected nutrients considered
adequate to meet the nutrient needs of practically all healthy people.
Answer: Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)
46. It is the breaking down of foodstuffs in the body into a form that can be absorbed and used
or excreted.
Answer: Digestion
47. It is the state of being healthy and fit, gaining all nutrients.
Answer: Wellness
48. It is a lack of adequate fluids in the body.
Answer: Dehydration
49. It is a deficiency in blood where iron level intake is too low.
Answer: Anemia or Anaemia
50. These are foods that are supplemented with essential nutrients in quantities greater than
already present.
Answer: Fortified Foods
51. How do you call a healthcare professional with training in nutrition and diet planning?
Answer: Dietician/Dietitian
52. _______ is the science that deals with foods and their effects on health.
Answer: Nutrition
53. ________ is a drug or remedy used for treating illness.
Answer: Medicine
54. It is a lack of healthy foods in the diet, or an excessive intake of unhealthy foods, leading to
physical harm.
Answer: Malnutrition
55. What is the best way to determine the nutritional status of an individual?
Answer: Weighing
56. What substance are nails made of?
Answer: Keratin
57. Dairy products are generally made from what common liquid?
Answer: Milk
59. It is the only sugar manufactured my mammals.
Answer: Lactose
60. Axerophthol is the same as what vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin A
61. It is a malignant growth of cells.
Answer: Cancer
62. Cardiopathy is known to be as what sort of disease?
Answer: Heart Disease
63. It is a disease caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D.
Answer: Rickets
64. What vitamin is a viosterol?
Answer: Vitamin D2
65. What nutrient is needed as the main structural component of the body?
Answer: Protein
66. What vitamin helps in blood clotting and is known as naphthoquinone?
Answer: Vitamin K
67. What vitamin is needed for a healthy immune system and strong connective tissue?
Answer: Vitamin C/Ascorbic Acid
68. It is also known as tocopherol and is necessary for normal reproduction.
Answer: Vitamin E
69. What is the cheapest source of iodine in our household?
Answer: Iodized salt
70. What fruit is an alligator pear?
Answer: Avocado
71. Who was the Philippine President who declared July as a month of nutrition?
Answer: Ferdinand Marcos
72. This is often marketed as “superfruits” being rich in vitamins A and C.
Answer: Guava
73. It is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible for
creating a conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art technology
and approaches.
Answer: National Nutrition Council (NNC)
74. It is a medical condition in which the eye fails to produce tears caused by a deficiency in
vitamin A.
Answer: Xerophthalmia
75. He is referred to as the “Father of Medicine”.
Answer: Hippocrates
76. _______ is a thiamine-deficiency disease.
Answer: Beriberi
77. What Presidential Decree, known as the “Nutrition Act of the Philippines” which created the
National Nutrition Council (NNC) as the highest policy-making on nutrition, was promulgated on
1974?
Answer: P.D. 491
78. What Executive Order, which named the Department of Health as the chair of the NNC?
Answer: Executive Order No. 472
79. What is the process of removing harmful pathogens from various types of food.
Answer: Pasteurization/Pasteurisation
80. It protects the child from measles and is given only once as early as nine months.
Answer: Measles Vaccine
81. It protects the unborn child from the tetanus and is given to the mother twice.
Answer: Tetanus Toxoid
82. It is the current vaccine for tuberculosis.
Answer: Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG)
83. What is the substance found in colostrum that fights against infection and creates antibodies
that stimulates immunity?
Answer: Immunoglobulin
84. ________ is a hidden hunger.
Answer: Malnutrition
85. It is also called “Night Blindness” and is a poor vision in relatively low light.
Answer: Nyctalopia
86. Malunggay have different parts. One of these is the fruit/seed. For what is the use of this
fruit/seed?
a. Arthritis c. Wounds
b. Stomach Ache d. Leukemia
Answer: a. Arthritis
87. _________ is slowness in eating.
Answer: Bradyphagia
88. A person who stores too much sugar in the body may suffer from ___________.
Answer: Diabetes
89. Who discovered the vitamin D and the role of the vitamin in preventing rickets?
Answer: Edward Mellanby
90. What is the medical term for the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the
brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges?
Answer: Meningitis
92. This disease happens when the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle
suddenly becomes blocked and the heart can’t get oxygen.
Answer: Heart Attack
93. It is a part of the vitamin B complex, which is vital for red blood cells, and thus used in the
treatment of pernicious and macrocytic anemia and gastrointestinal disorders.
Answer: Folic Acid / Folacin / Folate / vitamin M / vitamin B9 / vitamin Bc
94. _________ means hernia of the stomach.
Answer: Gastrocele
95. _________ is any illness resulting from the consumption of contaminated food or foods
which contain poisonous substances.
Answer: Foodborne Illness / Foodborne Disease / Food Poisoning
96. What is the stable food of Filipinos that is served every meal?
Answer: Rice
97. When protein reaches the intestines for it to be digested, in what unit is it broken?
Answer: Amino Acid
98. It is a statement or information on food labels indicating the nutrient(s) and the quantity of
said nutrient found or added in the processed foods or food products.
Answer: Nutrition Facts
99. ________ is the addition of nutrients to processed foods or food products at levels above
the natural state.
Answer: Fortification / Food Fortification
100. This is a strategy to encourage food manufacturers to fortify processed foods or food
products with essential nutrients at levels approved by the Department of Health (DOH).
Answer: Sangkap Pinoy Seal Program
101. It is the process of introducing vaccine into the body to stimulate the formation of
antibodies which fight germs that cause diseases.
Answer: Immunization
102. What do you call the medical condition in which a person’s spine is curved from side to
side?
Answer: Scoliosis
103. What is the act establishing the Philippine Food Fortification Program?
Answer: R.A. 8976
104. This results from a disproportion among essential nutrients with or without the absolute
deficiency of any nutrients.
Answer: Imbalance
105. What is the other name for vetsin, which we usually used in cooking that give flavor to the
foods we eat?
Answer: Monosodium glutamate / Sodium glutamate
106. ________ is a substance formed by protein in the blood that is used by the immune system
to identify and neutralize foreign objects such as bacteria and viruses.
Answer: Antibody
107. It is the removal of mineral or calcium ions from the bone or other calcified tissue to make
them flexible and easy for pathological investigation.
Answer: Decalcification
108. These are smaller amounts of vitamins or minerals consumed.
Answer: Micronutrients
109. What hormone is produced in the pancreas that regulates the metabolism of glucose? [The
lack of this hormone causes diabetes.]
Answer: Insulin
110. __________ are portions and types of foods and beverages consumed on a regular basis.
Answer: Diet
111. It is a standardized ratio of weight to height.
Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
112. In what part of the body does digestion begin?
Answer: Mouth
113. What group of foods builds and repairs worn-out tissues?
Answer: Grow Foods
114. In what year was it discovered that citrus fruit juices aided in the treatment of scurvy, now
known as vitamin C deficiency disease?
Answer: 1720
115. What basic food group provides the body with heat and energy?
Answer: Energy-Giving Foods (Go Foods)
116. It is a deficiency of calcium in elderly.
Answer: Osteoporosis
117. What is the poor man’s meat?
Answer: Monggo (English Terms: Mung Bean / Moong Bean / Lentil / Legume / Mung Pea)
118. What vitamin do we get from yellow foods?
Answer: Vitamin A
119. What mineral makes our teeth harder?
Answer: Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus
120. What are the water-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamin C and Vitamins B complex
121. What vitamin helps in preventing hemorrhage and known as bandage vitamin?
Answer: Vitamin K
122. What do you call the thrombocytes that are tiny colorless disk-shaped and plays an
important part in the clotting process?
Answer: Platelets
123. What do you call the cholesterol that comes from food?
Answer: Dietary Cholesterol
124. What do you call the cholesterol that circulates in your blood?
Answer: Serum Cholesterol/Blood Cholesterol
125. What is the body’s most essential nutrient?
Answer: Water
126. What are the fat-soluble vitamins?
Answer: Vitamins A, D, E, and K
127. It must accompany smart eating for weight control.
Answer: Regular Exercise
128. _______ is a guideline for helping people choose a varied, balanced, and moderate diet.
Answer: Daily Food Guide
129. It is a fatlike substance found only in animal sources of food.
Answer: Cholesterol
130. What is the governmental agency responsible for food labels?
Answer: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
131. These are the substances added for a specific effect.
Answer: Additives
132. ___________ is an excess body fat.
Answer: Obesity
133. How many calories are there in a pound?
Answer: 3,500 calories
134. It is an eating disorder characterized by an irrational fear of becoming obese.
Answer: Anorexia nervosa
135. It refers to the eating of large amounts of starches on days leading up to athletic
competition.
Answer: Carbohydrate Loading
136. It is when the body’s immune system overreacts to food substances.
Answer: Food Allergy
137. ___________ is using a medicine in a way that is not intended.
Answer: Medicine misuse
138. It is the ability to be physically active.
Answer: Physical Fitness
139. Of the existing 22 amino acids, how many are considered to be essential in the diet?
Answer: 9 amino acids
140. What are the complex carbohydrates?
Answer: Starches
141. What mineral helps build red blood cells?
Answer: Iron
142. It is a fat-soluble vitamin that enhances the absorption of calcium and therefore aids in the
formation and maintenance of bones and teeth.
Answer: Vitamin D
143. What are the simple carbohydrates?
Answer: Sugars
144. What is the primary role of carbohydrates in the body?
Answer: To provide energy
145. ____________ is the sole source of energy used by the brain.
Answer: Glucose
146. It is a B vitamin that is a factor in energy metabolism and supports normal vision and skin
health.
Answer: Vitamin B2 or Riboflavin
147. ___________ is an excessively rapid heartbeat.
Answer: Tachycardia
148. It is a bad breath.
Answer: Halitosis
149. ____________ is a condition in which a person can no longer control his or her need or
desire for a drug.
Answer: Drug Addiction
150. It is any chemical or agent that causes cancer.
Answer: Carcinogen
DENTAL/ oral health

1. What causes tooth decay?

Answer: Acid
2. What age should a child see a dentist?
Answer: 1 year old
3. Halitosis is the medical term for ___.
Answer: Bad Breath
4. The best way to prevent gum (periodontal) disease is to…
Answer: Remove plaque
5. Poor Dental health is linked to many serious diseases and conditions. True or False.
Answer: True
Rationale: Some studies have linked common oral problems to illnesses, including heart disease, stroke,
diabetes, premature birth, osteoporosis, and even Alzheimer's disease. In most cases, the strength and
exact nature of the link is unclear, but researchers suggest that dental health is important for preserving
overall health.
6. Tooth loss is an inevitable part of aging. True or False.
Answer False Rationale: "Teeth do not die a natural death -- we kill them. Exactly how do we do that?
In short, by disease or trauma."
7. Toothbrushes should be replaced every___.
Answer 2 to 3 Months
8. This usually precedes gum disease (Periodontal disease).
Answer: Gingivitis ( Gum inflammation)
9. Having diabetes increase your risk of dental disease? True or False.
Answer: True
10. Gum disease is associated with – Pregnancy, Heart disease and stroke, and diabetes
11. Hardest material in the human body? Bone or Enamel?
Answer: Enamel
12. Adults have 32 teeth ( 8 incisors, 4 canines, 8 premolars, and 12 molars (including 4 wisdom
teeth))
13. Babies have 20 teeth

The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth. They are more developed in
mammals. They are used primarily to grind food during chewing. The name molar derives from Latin, molaris
dens, meaning "millstone tooth", from "mola", millstone and dens, tooth. Molars show a great deal of
diversity in size and shape across mammal groups.

Medical term for CHEW

Answer: MASTICATION